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Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

December 16, 2009, 12:26 pm

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Bands are often referred to as having a distinct “sound” that spans across tracks and runs through multiple releases. Depending …

Pop Is Dead: How Radiohead shed their skin and changed the music industry

November 18, 2009, 12:00 am

Despite the arena-ready choruses and prog-rock leanings that characterized their 1990’s output, Radiohead in the 21st century have been all …

A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes Grammar

September 21, 2009, 9:05 am

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When their first album dropped in early 2007, A Sunny Day in Glasgow barely registered at all on the new …

Internal Debate: The Dead Weather

July 28, 2009, 12:00 am

The reviews are in for the latest from The Dead Weather and, for the most part, the feedback sounds great. …

Snow Angels

May 7, 2009, 9:56 am

There’s a scene in Snow Angels when Arthur Parkinson is talking to his father while walking along a snow-covered sidewalk. …

Taxi to the Dark Side

January 20, 2009, 10:41 am

In 1971 psychologist Philip Zimbardo embarked on a frighteningly eye-opening, ethically dubious experiment in the basement of the Stanford psychology …

Oh, How We Long For Thee: A 2009 Preview

December 12, 2008, 12:00 am

2008 was a good year. By year’s end, we will have featured 195 interviews and reviewed over 500 albums in …

The Visitor

November 24, 2008, 1:06 pm

The Visitor is a frustrating film. It is a well-acted but inherently flawed piece of cinema that can be added …

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

November 4, 2008, 11:26 am

Whether intentional or not, movies hold the tendency to be propaganda pieces. The edits force us to focus on certain …

The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed

October 27, 2008, 5:10 pm

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Over 50 years ago Jack Kerouac published his second seminal novel, On The Road, and became an instant celebrity. He …